Software Engineer - Data team

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  Solid software engineering fundamentals: you write production code, test it properly and work comfortably with Git and CI pipelines

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  AI fluency: you use AI coding tools daily and check their output carefully, especially for SQL, schema changes and anything that affects data correctness

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  Good SQL and some experience building or running data pipelines, so you’re comfortable working with data from source to query

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  A solid grasp of data modelling

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  Clear, confident communication in written and spoken English

• Experience running a lakehouse or data warehouse in production

• Production experience with Kafka and schemas (ideally Avro)

• Experience handling personal data, including privacy, retention and access control

• You’re comfortable making design decisions and explaining the trade-offs, in writing as well as in conversation

• You enjoy working closely with the teams that produce the data, not just the ones that use it

• Nice to have: JVM experience (Kotlin or Java), Apache Iceberg, Terraform, AWS Lake Formation, DuckDB

We don’t expect you to tick every box. What matters most is curiosity, a willingness to learn, and the motivation to take ownership of your work.

• How to build a data platform from the ground up for a global fare payment platform used by transit agencies and millions of riders

• Hands-on experience with a modern lakehouse stack: Iceberg, Athena, Lake Formation, Kafka and Avro on AWS

• How to shape technical direction in a small team, where your design choices and write-ups set the standard

• How to use AI tools well in real engineering work, in a team that encourages them and cares about getting the results right

• Java or Kotlin

• AWS: S3, Apache Iceberg, Athena, Lake Formation (and potentially more query engines)

• PostgreSQL, DuckDB

• Kafka with Avro

• Terraform, GitLab CI

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